Has anyone here ever witnessed a shooting?

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20. Not quite the same thing but I was mugged at gun point by 2 youths

several years back. It's amazing the things you notice and how you react at the time and how those things tend to stick with you (and there was no death involved for me), so I can only imagine how this may stick with you. For a while, anytime I saw someone on a bicycle (the youths rode up on me on bike's), I got panicked.

But the things I remember most was hoping they wouldn't rape me (that was my first thought because they told me to lay on the ground) and the second was that their guns sounded like plastic (come to find out later, they were plastic BB guns) when they tightened their hands on the grips. Of course, when I told the detectives that I thought the guns were toys, the older one laughed at me. A**hole was wrong, not me.

Anyway, I also was really calm, like I suddenly took a calm pill, I had my hands up in front of me, telling them to be calm, I'm guessing as a way to keep me calm? I also tend to get jumpy when someone sneaks up on me still and this happened, like 6/7 years ago.

I wish you luck!